Talk:Robert Hansen

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[edit] Unreferenced & NPOV

I added the Unreferenced and NPOV templates to the page, as this article needs a lot of work. Not a single reference is included, and the article takes an almost wholly negative tone toward the subject. Yes, he is a convicted serial killer, but this article needs to tell his story without bias. Weathermandan (talk) 06:55, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

Pretty hard to say anything good about a guy who kidnapped girls, flew them into the Alaskas wilderness, turned them loose and hunted them. You could say he was creative or a good marksman.Spoonkymonkey (talk) 15:36, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Plagiarized

This article wastaken from this site: http://panachereport.com/channels/more%20short%20stories/RobertHansen.htm —Preceding unsigned comment added by Spoonkymonkey (talk • contribs) 23:45, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

I find it quite likely that the opposite is in fact true. You can see that the bulk of the article text was written between the 24th and 28th of March, 2006. From there, little changed until 03:16, 22 May 2007. This was the final revision before the Robert Hanson article was created at the 'panache report' site, on the 31st of May 2007.

As you can see, the text of the article seems to have been copied from Wikipedia with some grammatical changes. The smoking gun is here- if the anonymous IP editor who wrote much of our article had been 'sneakily plagiarizing', they would have got Hanson's place of birth right (or at least identical to the article text) from the start.

If anything the Foundation should be investigating legal avenues against these people. The typical Wikipedia Manual Of Style-influenced intros are obvious giveaways that many of the other articles on the site have been copied. If she has any money that hasn't been spent on vanity publishing, anyway. John Nevard (talk) 03:23, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

OK. I didn't/don't know how to check the publication dates. I thought it best to bring the issue to Wikipedia's attention. I'll take off the tag. Spoonkymonkey (talk) 15:33, 8 March 2008 (UTC)